Re: browser interface to forums please?

On 2017-04-05 15:11, Vincent Veyron wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:01:24 +0200
> vinny <vinny@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Every time I tell someone about the mailinglists I then have to
>> explain
>> how they can subscribe, how to create folders, filters etc. And more
>> often than not
>> they just say forget it and go to some forum.
>
> On forums, all you see is the header for the discussion, and the
> number of messages attached to it.
>
> It makes it much more difficult to follow discussions, because you
> don't know if there are new messages or not, unless you memorized how
> many were there the last time you looked at it. And even then, you
> can't tell whether you even read them previously or not, which a
> mailing list will tell you, because the messages are marked.

It depends entirely on which forum software you use.
If keeping track of read messages is a requirement then you would
obviously
use a forum that does that for you.

But again, I'm not saying the mailinglist should be replaced by a forum.
What I'm saying is that many users find forums a lot easier to use and
give the choice,
they will opt for the forum. Hence it makes sense to provide something
for those users,
if there is the manpower to do so.

>> Can you expect Joe
>> Average to do something like that
>> if they want to get more involved in PgSQL?
>>
>
> How hard is it to subscribe, create a folder and a filter? If that is
> too involved, I don't see how they can get involved in postgres
> anyway.

That might be true if you are talking about contributors, sure, but
we're not.
Or at least, I'm not, and I guess that's where I'm mistaking. Perhaps
the mailinglists
are the way they are to encourage the more serious users to use them,
and keep everyday questions out a little.

That would be fine too, but don't put it like "if you this is too much
work, you shouldn't be using postgresql".